MIRNA-DISTILLER: A stand-alone application to compile microRNA data from databases

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue JULY, 2011, Pages

  Rieger, Jessica K ^a   Bodan, Denis A ^a   Zanger, Ulrich M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Database; Gene expression; Gene regulation; Microrna; Non coding RNA; Stand alone software

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875231202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2011.00039     Document Type: Article

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